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NATO/CCMS Pilot Project on Contaminated Land and Groundwater (Phase III) January 2002
INTRODUCTION
The Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established the Committee on the
Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS) in 1969. CCMS was charged with developing meaningful
programs to share information among countries on environmental and societal issues that complement
other international endeavors and to provide leadership in solving specific problems of the human
environment. A fundamental precept of CCMS involves the transfer of technological and scientific
solutions among nations with similar environmental challenges.
The management of contaminated land and groundwater is a universal problem among industrialized
countries, requiring the use of existing, emerging, innovative, and cost-effective technologies. This
document reports on the fourth meeting of the Phase III Pilot Study on the Evaluation of Demonstrated
and Emerging Technologies for the Treatment and Clean Up of Contaminated Land and Groundwater.
The United States is the lead country for the Pilot Study, and Germany and The Netherlands are the Co-
Pilot countries. The first phase was successfully concluded in 1991, and the results were published in
three volumes. The second phase, which expanded to include newly emerging technologies, was
concluded in 1997; final reports documenting 52 completed projects and the participation of 14 countries
were published in June 1998. Through these pilot studies, critical technical information was made
available to participating countries and the world community.
The Phase III study focuses on the technologies for treating contaminated land and groundwater. This
Phase is addressing issues of sustainability, environmental merit, and cost-effectiveness, in addition to
continued emphasis on emerging remediation technologies. The objectives of the study are to critically
evaluate technologies, promote the appropriate use of technologies, use information technology systems
to disseminate the products, and to foster innovative thinking in the area of contaminated land. The Phase
III Mission Statement is provided at the end of this report.
The first meeting of the Phase III study was held in Vienna, Austria, on February 23-27, 1998. The
meeting included a special technical session on treatment walls and permeable reactive barriers. The
proceedings of the meeting and of the special technical session were published in May 1998. The second
meeting of the Phase III Pilot Study convened in Angers, France, on May 9-14, 1999, with representatives
of 18 countries attending. A special technical session on monitored natural attenuation was held.
This report and the general proceedings of the 1999 annual meeting were published in October 1999. This
third meeting was held in Wiesbaden, Germany from June 26-30, 2000. The special technical session
focused on decision support tools. The reports were published in January 2001. Most recently, the fourth
Phase III meeting was held September 9 -14, 2001 in Liège, Belgium. The topic of this year’s special
session was validation of in situ remediation performance.
This and many of the Pilot Study reports are available online at http://www.nato.int/ccms/ and
http://www.clu-in.org/intup.htm. General information on the NATO/CCMS Pilot Study may be obtained
from the country representatives listed at the end of the report. Further information on the presentations in
this decision support tools report should be obtained from the individual authors.
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Stephen C. James
Walter W. Kovalick, Jr., Ph.D.
Co-Directors